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Subject: Re: Midnight Meat Train 2008 USA
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On Aug 4, 11:11=A0pm, William <wlahe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm not a snob, I'll watch everything. Every once in a while I'll find an=
 offbeat horror film just to see what the differences between horror and cr=
ime really consist of. Obviously, if there are werewolves, demons, vampires=
 and such, it's horror. But then you have Freddy and Jason and while they'r=
e horror, "No Country For Old Men" is positioned as a "serious" film about =
the modern malaise or some such nonsense. For my money, the only difference=
 in say a Jason flick and "No Country" is the lack of nubile misbehaving te=
enage girls in the latter. "No Country" is horror for old folks.
>
> So a friend lends me "Midnight Meat Train" and it's directed by Ryuhei Ki=
tamura who has done a handful of other films that I haven't seen. Based on =
a story by Clive Barker, it's the story of a photographer who stumbles acro=
ss a horrific reality. Actually several horrors as Brooke Shields is in thi=
s film playing a gallery owner and art world mover and shaker and as is typ=
ical of this kind of film, the characters are flat and unconvincing.

For me, Clive Barker is/was a modern H.P. Lovecraft, providing a
reliable well of escapist deep funk (...maybe why some druggies take
downers, come to think of it).  So, I'd just as soon his characters
remained no more than mildly interesting, at best ...or maybe amusing,
a la Hawks's THE THING.  Anyhow, I'd allow that MMT's 'underworld'
sequences did go on a bit too long for what, after all, was only the
punchline to a short-story.  But, I'd have expected you to enjoy the
atmospheric descent and, in particular, the slick, albeit sick, subway-
car mayhem ...which I think I could've picked out of a lineup as the
work of an Asian director.  (As for 'unconvincing characters', btw,
I'll bet you don't know who Vinnie Jones is...)

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